For those teaching this excellent story, you might check out the Great Amwell prod. video of "The private History of A Campaing That Failed." After and adaptation of the title story, a short dramatization of "The War Prayer" was added and is nicely done. I don't think I'd bother showing a class the whole video but the five minute version of "The War Prayer" might well help spark discussion. For other information, you might read my "Mark Twain and Tom Paine: 'Common Sense' as Source for 'The War prayer'" in a 1989 issue of CCTE Studies, the details of publication slip my mind. In it, I compare passages from Paine and 1st Samuel in the Bible to the structure of the "War Prayer" which might also add to classroom discussion. Wes Britton